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WilliamSea

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What is wrong with Notification Options?

 

I go into my notification options settings, change them to remove the 'Email' from all of the check boxes and save the settings.

Exiting, and going back into the options, all the check boxes are removed from the 'Email' column.

 

But sure enough, the next day, they are all reset back to email notifications. I mostly know this because I start getting emails again.

 

I am on-call a lot for work, and I use my phone for this. (I thus have to keep my notifications sound level very high) I also use my phone for my email account. I do not want to be waken up in the middle of the night from an email notification from this site because somebody in Europe sent me a PM. I have been turning the email notifications off for months now, and the site keeps turning them back on.

Is there any solution to this continuing problem I am having with this site? I would prefer not having to turn off PM's altogether.

Edited by WilliamSea
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Notification settings are reliant on cookies. If you are deleting or losing your cookies, then the board will loose track of your settings. I have never had any issue.
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I don't have a problem with automatic login, or downloading files, so my guess here is the cookies are fine. :shrug: Unless a board admin can verify that its cookie related.

But why should it 'reset' if I change it and the setting stick, then log off. During the night it resets without me logging on and changing anything with my 'cookies'?

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Cookies can have an expiration date set to "when the browser closes". As long as you remain on the site and keep your browser open, the cookies will be fine. But as soon as you close your browser or power down your pc, they'll be gone, and as such will be your settings.

As that would be bad design by definition I doubt that's the case here, but I know some browsers or security settings do that anyways, delete cookies on close, no matter what the expiration date is.

 

From my point of view, coming from a web and server developer's domain, you can store identification data in cookies or temporary states maybe, but you should never store something as important as settings in something as unreliable as the RAM of your pc when you power it down. Cookies are not to store persistent data, period, as cookies themselves are not guaranteed to be persistent.

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I've been wondering what's causing the problem for months now. It doesn't happen to me every day but perhaps every 5 days or so. No idea how to fix it so just waiting until we have time to upgrade the forums in the new year.

 

The obvious, and easy, solution for you is to separate your work email from your leisure email by setting up a second email account for these situations....

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